Ritz Plaza Hotel Amritsar

... br>Far too quickly we have to move on again. Could stay here much longer, but the good thing is that you can always return to a place, and that is what I will do one day!<br><br>The next 300km, which takes us 2 days we spend driving in convoy with an Austrian couple and even some armed police escort for part of the way. It remains unclear why that part supposed to be unsafe. On local and tourist advice we park on hotel parking every night (PTDC or other one). No ...

... book around the sqaure in front of the entrance and then it went back into the golden building. I was very happy I had seen what I wanted to see.<br><br>Also had the usual requests for photos, some women were really impressed I was wearing my scarf in the same way that they were! The few other female tourists I saw just had a bandana tied round their heads so I received brownie points. Also had a request for my ...

... with us, more than often just with me as I think I might find that Im being posted as a UK Bride on the net, we shall see... very weird though.. but funny too. <br><br>We didnt have long in the temple as we had to get our train but it was an amazing place just a shame that when you get out yet again the touts are on you like flies on **** but we were heading out of town again to Jaipur so we hoped that that would be better again.. <br><br>Update on the train journey and Jaipur to come.. <br>

... King like in the US and had just stolen the name. I thought it would be pretty hard to operate a Burger King in a country that doesn't have hamburgers, and strangely most of the menu here was pizzas. We settled for lunch at the Pizza Hut across the street instead. It is definitely nice to eat familiar food from an American company every once in a while. <br><br>Tamir and I went back to the Golden Temple and decided to actually go check it out. You are not allowed to wear ...

this is the holiest city of the sikh religion and contains their most important shrine, the golden temple. we visited the temple at around 7 am, when it is at its quietest and even then it was pretty busy. our heads were covered as is required and we quietly walked around the temple which is situated in the centre of a man made lake. we then took the walk up the narrow causeway and entered the ...

... are in the moment. I made my excuses and left. I wanted to spend my last few hours in Amritsar staring at the beautiful sunset reflecting in the lake. Not a forest of nose hair. Hopefully she passed h** exam but its weird how the smallest things can det**mine your future.<br><br>p.s. Returned to my childhood as I took a group of Indians picture with a 1980's, wind-on, plastic house brick. fantastic. And a guy went past me on a chopp** push bike. I'm just off for a go on my space hopp**.

... and for an hour Sarah endured Prash's compliments and creepy smiles. He never actually crossed the line of harassment, and was in fact very very friendly and helpful to both of us, but there was definatly something weird about him. There are probably a couple examples of this, but our favorite is that he gave us his phone number so that we could call him when Sarah has a baby so that he can help pick out a name. What the hell?<br><br>Like all of our experiences in Amritsar ...

... a little less risky than what my tummy had previously encountered, since it was doing a lot of gurgling and queasing!<br><br>I headed south-west of Old Delhi to visit Raj Ghat. It's an area with laid out gardens and park and is a part of town where several of India's most admired have been cremated: Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharial Neru, Indira Gandhi and her two grandsons, Raj &amp; Sanjay. In an area further from the main ring road, a peaceful and pleasant section of the ...

... meds were dispensed. For a little over $1 we got to see the doctor (who was in the middle of dinner,) and we got meds. Janpal: The Golden Temple was conceived and started by Guru Amar Das, the third Guru of the Sikh religion. It was finished by the fourth Guru- Guru Ramdas. The site is considered important because there was a small pond in which a sick man fell in and was cured when he came out of the water. The man was ...

... our picture, perhaps for facebook or myspace, and after wards we wondered what the photo caption or comments will be... After some more time wandering the old city with a bottle of Thumbs Up Cola, we walked back to the hotel for an early night thanks to Ole Mr. Jet Leg. In the morning we met up with Sam for some lunch, walked around the old city and looked for a taxi to the border with Pakistan for the gate closing ceremony, which is legendary ...